It's maddening how often Ben gives away his own grift, that he *feels* like homosexuality is wrong because of his religion, that he *feels* like leftists are always bad and wrong, and he will find the facts that affirm that belief, and yet he is still seen as someone worth engaging with by others who *feel* that he has positions based on logic and experience
Exactly what I was going to say! So often the arguments of conservatives have no justification at all, so when they hear someone who seems to be using “logic” to back their bigoted viewpoints, they idolize them. Joe Rogan was the same, and to a lesser extent so is Jordan Peterson. Anyone who is educated on the facts can easily see through this charade, that it’s just opinion hidden in the semantics of logic, but that’s what makes these guys so dangerous. They can fool a lot of people.
@@emmacassady4518 No justification at all? I believe this was true 20 years ago when they were stomping on hip hop cds, but now, they have plenty of justification. The left has gone completely intolerant and ideologically driven.
Ben Shapiro is what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like. Someone who has mastered the debate "format" to the point where he feels no need to present any good faith arguments or logic
Debate is a skill, a skill that is independant from being correct. Its also pretty important for convincing a lot of people. Less for the opponent in a debate, but for the audience. A lot of people are only really convinced by seeing who comes out on top in a debate. Its an important format. Dismissing it is crippling to the spreadability of an ideology. Yes, even if your ideology is that debate is shit and stupid. If you hate the way the electoral system works in (insert country that at least pretends to be democratic here), you should still vote.
@@jordanetherington1922 so you make a generalization to show how Ben Shapiro makes too many generalizations? What points in this video were galloping and what points weren't?
@@seansezz I mean you asked me what I felt would make him sound smarter and I answered. I'm not a trained speaker that gets paid millions to talk to people.
Ben Shapiro appeal is this: looking smug while talking, despite being demonstrably wrong about almost anything he says. He makes the most shallow arguments to sustain his thesis which are the same asinine arguments his audience make, only in an rosier language. He basically is there to confirm the biases of his audience, not to expand their knowledge with real data or challenge their wrong beliefs.
Exactly. 🙁 His audience doesn't want to be challenged. They believe the things he says, because it fits with their own biases, and makes them feel smug, too. I think both sides could use some more skepticality and critical thinking skills, for sure, but the lack of it in the right is ABUSED more than it is in the left, IMO.
@@Acidfunkish at least on the left we are more willing to object someone point when is blatantly wrong. Look at the Ukraine war for an example. The anti-autoritharian part of the community immediately challenged and debunked the rhetoric made by the part of the community made by tankies, aka, those ready to sustain every single soul crushing regime if it opposes the US and NATO. On the right often none of that actually happend. Every time a right winger makes an ignorant point, the community covers or sustain it. They depict a dictator with a far-right wing agenda as Orban as a positive example? Fine. It doesn't matter that he transformed his state in a living hell for minorities and spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories. He is a good guy. There is a severe lack of critical thinking. Their way of thinking is "The points this conservative influencer make are dressed as intellectual stuff = they are a genius and his points are correct. Libs owned" even when what they say is blatantly factually and demonstrably wrong.
... which is why debate is useless. No one can refute Ben's BS in real time, and his head is completely full of it. His fans have already picked the winner going into every debate, and the same is true for his opponents. Debate only keeps people angry and divided, it doesn't change any minds.
@@alessandrorona6205 No, that's a lie. You've allowed men on women's spaces and children's spaces and no one in the left said anything when it's clearly wrong. You're also reject science that there are only two genders and a fetus is a baby. You allowed the perversion of children and now pedophilia. As an outsider, how do you expect me to believe that? You don't check yourselves. You continue to disrespect others and foreigners. You continue to endanger women and children for the sake of "being a good person." As a conservative, I don't need Shapiro or any conservative media to validate me. The previous things I've mentioned is validation enough is that the liberals, leftists, and Democrats are the most evil people in the world and I'm on the right side of history. I'm curious to know how are you going to justify it and still make it seem that the left is better than the right.
My problem is that people treat him like an intellectual, he's not. He's kept the same level of knowledge and understanding since he was a child. He's shown no intellectual honesty, no ability to learn new information, nor have the ability to utilize any new information unless it props up his grift of selling wing-nut ideologies.
....never-mind that whole thing where is factually and demonstrably proven wrong at every turn....never-mind that whole thing where he appears on University campuses to "debate" a bunch of kids in an environment he controls, but always seems to duck the actual professors and research scientists and post docs that are in abundance on these campuses in a neutral environment....becuase he knows he will be eviscerated in short order by them.
@@thecollector6746 and they continue to treat him like an intellectual worthy of being debated in places of knowledge... It's the thing that has aggravated more and more it happens.
I think he is smart. He's just intentionally dishonest. You know how much rich conservatives love Ben Shapiro? Ben Shapiro plays them like a fiddle (pun intended).
I also don't understand how the guy you 100% would not invite to your birthday party in high school is something that anyone, especially young people could listen to of their own free will.
That's the thing that really blows my mind. No one really likes Ben Shapiro. Centrists and the left hate him obviously but even most right wingers don't really seem to like or interact with him (if they aren't selling something)
@@beebo7071 Honestly I think Peterson has some good advice when it comes to psychology and literature in an academic sense, but I think in no domain of authority does a psychologist seem fit to make social commentary on politics lmao. Unlike Shapiro tho, I can have some respect for Peterson because he's older and looks like he's purely coming from a place of old-fashioned ignorance and conservatism, whilst Shapiro looks like he's being purposely inflammatory for the views and hype
Could you imagine how mad he'd be that some no-name look-alike would get accolades for performing as him, after he himself faceplanted on his dream of Hollywood stardom on multiple occasions?
It’s funny how he thinks he’s so clever for ‘outsmarting’ college students but gets immediately destroyed the moment he’s confronted by someone who knows their subject matter (eg the Larry King interview). Because he’s so quick with heckling & wisecracks it gives the illusion of intelligence, which solidifies many beliefs of those on the right regardless of how wrong they can be.
I used to be a cringey gamergate type, and watched many of these of right-wing personalities that make me sick to my stomach nowadays, but even back then, I couldn’t stand Ben Shapiro. I would pay good money to be his high school bully.
Congratulations on your growth as a human. It is worth remembering that adults are better targets for bullying than children; you could start giving money to PSL or SA and we can start bullying the ruling class the way they deserve
That's ok. I very briefly got into some of those people. Never people like Ben who were flat out right wingers. I like logicked, armoured skeptic those types because I liked the arguments against atheism. And I was really freaked out when it turned into bashing feminists. I thought Sargon was so insane that I never fully jumped in. I still like several of them though the ones who were never right wingers. But the point is you learned and that's what matters
Omg same! I was big on GamerGate atheist types back in the “anti SJW heyday.” But even then I thought Ben was a dweeb who was just an arrogant idiot Also lol at that last sentence lmao 🤣🤣
Or he is Anakin without being the Chosen One. He feels hella mighty killing younglings but also is the kind of person to willingly fling himself up the high ground into an older, more wise master's lightsaber. Not to mention he probably hates Sand People and would force choke his own wife.
I always enjoy watching people debunking him or just laughing about him or his books, but there always comes a point were i realize that there are people who actually believe his bullshit and then im like - man, how?
Shapiro's face just begs to be slapped. His voice, his smugness, his gish gallops, his continuous stream of informal fallacies, his embarrassing lack of understanding of female anatomy and physiology. Good topic; why would you watch him?
That's what he is, he is a proxy for angry emotionally isolated men. He is the one who is able to say the horrible things they want to say to people they despise and blame for their shortcomings, and ben wholly embraces the role. How much of his own hype and bs does he irl believe is difficult to say, but I do know that he refuses to debate left tubers like Vaush or Xanderhal. Like if he believes wholeheartedly in his own rhetoric, then he should have no problem destroying them in a debate, or at the very least put them in a standstill
@@TurbopropPuppy true though regardless of the left-tuber in question, he won’t debate them cause he’s not interested in outside opinions of his sphere, and even if on some level he was; being the “hip intellectual” to edgelords is his bread & butter. Ben will never convince anyone that his ideas have merit outside of some platitudes that start from some kernel of truth I.E. there is a crisis of young men becoming more & more isolated, but he is reassuring to those that already share in his beliefs, and while he’s being reassuring, why not but some of his brain pills?
Emotionally isolated man @unlucky one? Do you have a reason for making that curious assumption? The man runs multiple successful companies and is a member of a Jewish community, so one would have to ask your sources…
@@judodavid1 Not sure I would classify grifting edgelords & being able to sign actors that got bounced out of the Mouse House as successful but to each their own. Amway is also successful using that frame of references.
As a dumb teen, trying to look edgy, I used to be a fan of Ben and the conservative narrative. Then I grew up. Some ppl just never grow up to develop their own intellect to question and not blindly follow/agree. And I think even Ben knows he is full of shit himself and doesn't belive everything that comes out of his own mouth. But that's what his audience wants to hear and that's what's making him money so he does it. This is true for most conservative influencer. It's impossible of any rational being to comprehend that one side is always f*ing right and the other wrong.
There's actually a very simple reason, if you'll excuse my extreme bluntness. His target audience is a bunch of cowardly losers. They don't want people who actually possess positive traits which they would find threatening like intellectual integrity, genuine confidence, healthy secure masculinity, etc as those people would challenge them and make them feel inferior. That's why from Ben, to Trump, to Bush, to Jordan Peterson, to all those neckbeards in Gamergate, to Musk, etc they so frequently cluster around people with such obvious personal failings who failed upward just because they were born with privilege and stubbornly stuck to their bigotries. They want people who they can put on pedestals and kiss up to but which won't challenge them to be better. They want reinforced their feeling that they're already better than 90% of the people out there and don't even have to work at it but are just being kept down from their rightful place by [insert meaningless collective label for everything left of conservative]. That's why their thought leaders are just as much failsons as them if you ignore the difference in money and status and all their intellectuals are what a stupid person's idea of a smart person is and their icons of masculinity are what a weak person's idea of a strong person is and a coward's idea of what a brave person is and an incel's idea of what an "alpha" is etc and all in ways that feel comfortable and familiar and something they can identify with. They're just looking to have their feelings that they're already the best pandered to. As always, it all comes back to their entire self-image being based on where they can imagine themselves in their invented heirarchies by kissing up to people who feel so familiar to them (raising their self-perceived status by increasing how close they can imagine themselves to the top of that heirarchy) and kicking down to others different from them (increasing their distance from the bottom of said hierarchy). It is a loser ideology for lazy, entitled losers desperately trying to escape their own feelings of weakness, which is why the appeal always comes back to the exact same thing with them whether we're talking about their preferences in thought leaders or anything else. I tried for a long time to understand the complex inner world of the far-right mind and eventually had to accept that I was just overcomplicating it. The appeal for any part of it is _always_ and without exception "because it temporarily alleviates their inner feelings of weakness which so terrify them" and the threadbare layer of "complexity" built right on top of that is tying their self image entirely to where they can imagine themselves in a heirarchy. Everything else is rationalizations and excuses for what they are emotionally driven to do. The motivation is _always_ the same (and what it is explains why they cling to their politics with such irrational desperation) Innuendo Studios' video on "Always a Bigger Fish" hits the nail on the head. It's ALL about heirarchy and putting themselves near the top of it. Philosophy Tube's video on "why the left will win" is also very topical.
I understand why you're framing them this way, but I grew up in the South and have a slightly different perspective. Americans relentlessly ridicule southerners as a bunch of inbred morons, and poverty rates in the south are higher than anywhere else in the US. They are going to churches where the pastor is preaching what capitalists want people to hear, and they don't know that they shouldn't be trusting one of the people they've been raised to trust more than anyone. If you ridicule anyone, you can rest assured that you aren't going to win them over to your side. As long as people who are currently on the right feel like they are being talked down to, they are just going to get even more entrenched in their beliefs while their (and our) quality of life continues to deteriorate.
@@justinwatson1510 ignoring the truth even privately because it would offend them to say it to their face is irrational, and you need to understand their real motivations if you're going to actually make an emotionally compelling argument why they should care what is true in the first place. Until you can manage that, any logic you can put forward will go in one ear and out the other. We need to be able to convince them that their feelings should care about the facts, and that's doubly true if you don't already have a strong personal connection to them. Sure, how you apply that knowledge gets more complicated and situational (yes, going around and calling every conservative a coward to their face at every opportunity isn't the best rhetorical strategy), but recognizing that fear of weakness is what is driving them is critical to getting past their emotional resistance to thinking in the first place so they they will have a chance of actively listening to your more substantial points. One of the key uses of this knowledge would be to convince them that continuing to follow their far-right thought leaders will make them weak. You cannot break through a cult mindset with reason alone when one of their tenants is contempt for truth and reason (which they associate with emasculation and weakness). You have to make the emotional case that they should care FIRST and you can't make effective emotional appeals to someone if you don't understand what motivates them.
You’re right and you should say it! Also when a man literally has nothing to show for himself in his life except his ego, he will cling onto whatever feeds it like the last crumb of sustenance on earth & the right provides men like this with a buffet.
"his target audience is a bunch of cowardly losers" " they don't want anyone to possess any positive traits" you have anything to back it up? Watching their videos doesn't count. IDK what "evidence" you're talking about but I'd like to see actual investigative journalism including recordings of Peterson, Trump, Shapiro, and anyone of the far-right who promotes 'hate.' "Loser ideology" what? So just because u don't agree and can't understand where they're coming from is something you have to be irrational about? The right is all about self-sufficiency and it's weird you're threatened by that. Do you still want the govt to hold your hand? You say that they don't want anyone to possess any positive traits but that's coming from YOU. You're being hateful against something you don't understand. As a conservative, I don't hate the liberals as people and I'm sure Shapiro and Peterson don't either. BUT you liberals and Democrats do. It's evident in your emotional, irrational "truth." 💀
Peterson had some good things to say during his peak in 2017-2018ish. It helped me cope my way through a crisis of identity and belonging. But now he fell off the deep end since the pandemic and it's just sad to see him become so bitter.
I used to genuinely think I wasn't smart enough to get an advanced degree... Jordan Peterson is the reason I no longer believe this. If he can, anyone can.
@@youtubesucks3882 you always had the answers inside you, and I bet any number of interlocutors could have revealed that to you eventually. Peterson has always been a douche, don't give him credit for you helping yourself. He wouldn't do the same for you.
As someone whose third language is English, I am strongly of the belief that people who listen to Ben Shapiro are just listening to him as a challenge and are trying to see whether they can keep up with his rather fast way of talking and convoluted way of speaking.
Yeah, his stilted manner makes the morons who listen to him feel smart. A stupid person's idea of a smart person. Ben typifies this better than anyone else it's been said of.
Much like Jordan Peterson... who is also seen as an intellectual instead of a liar (yes, liar, he lies about his credentials and his academic achievements), and not just a master chef in the landscape of word salads. Both men are just annoying, but even more annoying is the debilitating shock they cause in the people they choose to debate, because the absurdity is so massive that refuting their arguments is an utter exercise in futility. It's so easy to deconstruct their arguments, but I can't tell if it's out of (unwarranted) respect or bafflement, it seems their opponents never manage to point out how stupid they sound. I'm not a native English speaker either, but maybe because my language is already as convoluted as your average daytime TV drama, their speech just sounds like a whole lot of nothing. And their "evidence" and "studies" need to be presented with sources, otherwise they must be ignored and regarded as completely irrelevant. I mean, if that's all it takes I can mention fashion magazine articles or Reddit posts as "studies" too, if I don't need to mention the sources. Most of the time it's incredibly easy to summarize their five minute rants into a sentence with as few as ten words. And doing that makes it so much easier to expose their absurdity, their prejudice and their utter lack of reasonable arguments.
@@Juniperus_Godegara his academic credentials are in clinical psychology, yet he has more than once claimed he's an expert on neuroscience and evolutionary biology - which he isn't. Just because you read a book once doesn't make you an expert on the subject the book was covering. It's also pretty funny how someone who admits to be unqualified to analyse mathematical models also claims that climate models are too complicated to be accurate. I mean, that's pretty much like me saying brain surgery is too complicated to perform accurately since I don't know how to do it. He should just be more humble about himself, and stick to facts. But he isn't and the "facts" he chooses to talk about are biased, often unsupported by evidence or refuted by other better supported studies, yet wrapped up so elaborately by his confidence that people just believe him. No one bothers to fact check him, and that's both very fascinating (from a negative perspective concerning human behaviour) and extremely dangerous. We should always remember he's a psychologist, he has studied the tools to manipulate people. And he's doing just that.
This video is begging to be the first of a whole series. Now do one on Dennis Prager, Matt Walsh, and Dave Rubin. WINDOWS HAS FINISHED SEARCHING AND NO APPEAL WAS FOUND
I want to thank you for your last video. For whatever reason, probably subconsciously, I never took any time to develop any skin care routine. I admit that 15 years ago I would have thought moisturizer and exfoliant was “metrosexual,” a term I stopped using 12 years ago. I mentioned your video and told my wife I probably should stop washing my face with dandruff shampoo. She promptly bought me face soap, exfoliant, morning/evening moisturizer, and it’s been great. Thanks for helping me tear down a wall in my brain prison.
When Ben says “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” he doesn’t mean “you” in a general sense; he means YOU specifically. “Facts don’t care about YOUR feelings,” with the unstated assertion: “Facts DO care about Ben Shapiro’s feelings.”
Its cause he speaks fast which to most people means intelligent. He looks smug when saying his horseshit but because its so fast it seems like he won the interaction. Basically he gets his following by pure tone and body language. If he was this lethargic gloomy sounding sounding person, he'd be more popular with older demographics despite what he talks about. Tell you what, open a youtube video aimed at kids and look how that person is talking. Now notice Ben is the inbetween of like talking to normal people and an average person. Hence more zoomers because he keeps the energy and has this like memeable vibe to him he can maintain his audience. Also lets be clear, right wingers tend to have golden training wheels in media organisations you can be dogshit and still succeed with sheer billionaire funding.
I think the talk fast approach also “works” in that he can get through 5 points of horseshit, that anyone doing a debunking would need to slowdown & go through whatever nuance to debunk, but he’s already moved onto point 6 and the audience has probably already forgotten about the original point being debunked. Thank you recency effect.
Hey buddy, love your videos. I'm a huge fan of the big video essayists and also people like vaush and keffals and all that, and I just wanna say I appreciate what you do here. You're a good person, that much comes through your work.
Several of Ben’s early videos on his channel used specific facts that came from cited studies to back up his arguments, unfortunately, 99% of the time these facts were either cheery-picked, taken out of context, or taken from a study that *didn’t* support the conclusions he was trying to claim the study made. After getting taken to task and debunked several times, he just stopped citing facts to backup his arguments.
Something I always thought about. People say(or imply) that because we found out the gov did something wrong in the past, we are good now. Completely ignoring how we just find out that it happened, nothing done to fix it.
He's a conservative nerd. Most nerds are smart, which usually means they're on the left. Conservatives are like "hey guys we have our own nerd now! THIS GUY will let us copy his homework!"
Liberals in America have spent decades talking about conservatives like they're developmentally disabled, and I think that is why people like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapeño appeal to their audience. As much as they claim to hate professors in their ivory towers, conservatives want an authority figure with the trappings of intelligence who tells them that they are right and don't need to change.
I'm incredibly surprised at the typos in Ben's tweet at 22:25. How did he manage to write any papers to get through university if he doesn't know how to spell "it's", "says" or "disappointed"?
"the idea that conservatism is inherently unfunny is untrue" Sure about that, Ben? I have multiple studies that show otherwise. You are so painfully unfunny that you transcend the idea that humor is subjective to become empirically unfunny. That's quite the achievement.
@@mermaidmoon2254 it is certainly reliant on at least some forms of intelligence, so the lack of a sense of humor is certainly evidence of a cognitive deficiency... especially when one of the studies included not just the ability to make funny jokes, but to understand jokes (and conservatives had significant difficulty in telling when they were the butt of the joke) It's also far from the only way conservatives' mental faculties have been shown to be lacking....
@@dynamicworlds1 Lol a "smart" person wouldn't call a whole group of people they don't know as dumb losers with loser ideology. It's funny that you have a big ego just by bringing down people.
"How can anyone find Ben Shapiro appealing?" I've often asked myself the same question. Jordan Peterson I get. I mean, he sucks, but I get it. Ben Shapiro? What the hell?
10:35 Funnily enough, the example shown here is an outliar: that woman actually managed to back him into a corner and make him admit that he doesn't agree with cold hard science, of course, he remained stoic but I mean we all heard it...
As much as I do not respect Ben Shapiro, I do have to point out that referring to any jewish person as a goblin isn't a good move and plays into an antisemetic trope. I assume this is likely to be an accident but a heads up is needed
The thing that bothers me the most about the way he's presenting himself, is his voice and fast "I totally owned you, bro!" manner of speaking. It's giving middleschool kid trying to win an arguent about who's the coolest character to play in Smash.
And I like a surrogate for taking down a bully, so thank you (and all of the other people who make videos calling out public bullies) for doing so. I'm glad it's not the primary focus for most channels who do so, but it's nice to see it from time to time both as catharsis and a reminder that while these people aren't in my immediate circle any more they are still around spreading awful beliefs.
I wish we had time travel... I would send Benny to "good old days" of 1939 "right wing paradise"... I'm sure as a jew would fucking love it. I really wonder how his world view changed after that.
Has anyone even seen his wife in the past decade? I feel he made her quit being a doctor because either there's no way he would allow her to see any genitalia, or he needs to brag about having a stay-at-home wife taking care of their brood. Is she just making consulting calls from the basement? These men like Matt Walsh never get divorced, they did too good of a grooming and manipulation job.
My running theory so far is that Ben Shapiro and other conservative podcasters like him emulate the behavior of arrogant, confident Marvel heroes. I know it sounds crazy, but I feel like there's a lot of similarities between how he carries himself and how iron man does in his trilogy. My opinion is also influenced by the fact that my mom binges these podcasts and tells me "there's my boyfriend Benny Boo," which is similar to when we're watching a Marvel movie, and Iron man, Captain America, or Thor come on screen, and she says "that's my boyfriend!" In a joking way of course, but she shows the same admiration for these men as she does for Ben. Anyways, just a thought.
I love Ben Shapiro because, out of all of the big-shot rightwing communicators, he is the most obviously dumb, wrong, and entirely blunt to the fact. I have endless hours of fun listening to random people, youtubers and content creators dunking on him freely.
I would have liked to see some points he made and you debunking them. I don't blame you though. Who would want to sit through a Ben Shapiro speech and edit them for a video? My head would explode.
I watch one of his podcast, just out of curiosity and see why ppl is so attracted to him and Damm I got the answer, he's not just using the political instability to make content in a daily basic, he apeall to the MOST vocal, insecure, and bias majority, young, white extremely ensecure and lacking of any aware of their material conditions, political responsibility, capabilities and extremely detach from reality, you should be quite........ naive to belive anything he said, I find him lacking in character, charisma or personality, some one who doesn't belive in his own ideas and values, which is sad if you think about, some one unable to see his own flaws, pointing them and acknowledge such flaws to improve, change or alright accept them and be aware of them, shielding on excuses to avoid think and any kind of responsibility beyond our daily basic (is a lot more complex than what I'm saying but meh, think for yourself, I'm too lazy to keep wring shit)
Funerals for puppies ARE funny when it's a melodramatic procession of kids who barely know what they're doing, just watch the 3 lives of Thomasina, or Malcolm in the Middle.
I think you're wrong about Ben's charisma. He *is* charismatic in that he is authoritative. He speaks quickly and confidently in a way that makes him look sure of himself and correct outside of scrutiny. He's also good at pulling snappy comebacks out of his ass that make him look clever when he's actually just using thought terminating cliches to silence good arguments.
idk.... playing to the gallery in and of itself is either a win, or it isnt. if it isnt when ben does it, it isnt when someone else does it either. i truly hope we get away from the disingenuous performative cruelty as a model. its helping nobody.
Excellent - I love to see the flawed "logic" of these people exposed. And, of course, you had me at "as stuff as a 14 year old boy's socks found under the bed...
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It's maddening how often Ben gives away his own grift, that he *feels* like homosexuality is wrong because of his religion, that he *feels* like leftists are always bad and wrong, and he will find the facts that affirm that belief, and yet he is still seen as someone worth engaging with by others who *feel* that he has positions based on logic and experience
Exactly what I was going to say! So often the arguments of conservatives have no justification at all, so when they hear someone who seems to be using “logic” to back their bigoted viewpoints, they idolize them. Joe Rogan was the same, and to a lesser extent so is Jordan Peterson. Anyone who is educated on the facts can easily see through this charade, that it’s just opinion hidden in the semantics of logic, but that’s what makes these guys so dangerous. They can fool a lot of people.
Also I think sometime he slipped and accidentaly correct named a trans person and then remembered to deadname them? I dont remember fully well.
@@toctoc4964 Yeah, I believe it was on the Joe Rogan podcast when he called Caitlyn Jenner "She" and then corrected himself to "He" just to be an ass.
@@emmacassady4518 No justification at all? I believe this was true 20 years ago when they were stomping on hip hop cds, but now, they have plenty of justification. The left has gone completely intolerant and ideologically driven.
Can any of the logical Big Brain leftists here tell us what a woman is?
Ben Shapiro is what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like. Someone who has mastered the debate "format" to the point where he feels no need to present any good faith arguments or logic
Debate is a skill, a skill that is independant from being correct.
Its also pretty important for convincing a lot of people. Less for the opponent in a debate, but for the audience. A lot of people are only really convinced by seeing who comes out on top in a debate.
Its an important format. Dismissing it is crippling to the spreadability of an ideology. Yes, even if your ideology is that debate is shit and stupid. If you hate the way the electoral system works in (insert country that at least pretends to be democratic here), you should still vote.
Please tell us what the smart people sound like.
@@seansezz I think they would have much more substantive points and less gish galloping
@@jordanetherington1922 so you make a generalization to show how Ben Shapiro makes too many generalizations? What points in this video were galloping and what points weren't?
@@seansezz I mean you asked me what I felt would make him sound smarter and I answered. I'm not a trained speaker that gets paid millions to talk to people.
My condolences for having to watch Ben Shapiro to make this video.
Our boy went above and beyond the call of duty.
braver than the marines
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My thanks for having to watch Ben Shapiro to make this video. Salari did so we don't have to.
Ben Shapiro appeal is this: looking smug while talking, despite being demonstrably wrong about almost anything he says. He makes the most shallow arguments to sustain his thesis which are the same asinine arguments his audience make, only in an rosier language.
He basically is there to confirm the biases of his audience, not to expand their knowledge with real data or challenge their wrong beliefs.
Exactly. 🙁 His audience doesn't want to be challenged. They believe the things he says, because it fits with their own biases, and makes them feel smug, too.
I think both sides could use some more skepticality and critical thinking skills, for sure, but the lack of it in the right is ABUSED more than it is in the left, IMO.
You caught me
@@Acidfunkish at least on the left we are more willing to object someone point when is blatantly wrong. Look at the Ukraine war for an example. The anti-autoritharian part of the community immediately challenged and debunked the rhetoric made by the part of the community made by tankies, aka, those ready to sustain every single soul crushing regime if it opposes the US and NATO.
On the right often none of that actually happend. Every time a right winger makes an ignorant point, the community covers or sustain it. They depict a dictator with a far-right wing agenda as Orban as a positive example? Fine. It doesn't matter that he transformed his state in a living hell for minorities and spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories. He is a good guy.
There is a severe lack of critical thinking.
Their way of thinking is "The points this conservative influencer make are dressed as intellectual stuff = they are a genius and his points are correct. Libs owned" even when what they say is blatantly factually and demonstrably wrong.
... which is why debate is useless. No one can refute Ben's BS in real time, and his head is completely full of it. His fans have already picked the winner going into every debate, and the same is true for his opponents. Debate only keeps people angry and divided, it doesn't change any minds.
@@alessandrorona6205 No, that's a lie. You've allowed men on women's spaces and children's spaces and no one in the left said anything when it's clearly wrong. You're also reject science that there are only two genders and a fetus is a baby. You allowed the perversion of children and now pedophilia. As an outsider, how do you expect me to believe that? You don't check yourselves. You continue to disrespect others and foreigners. You continue to endanger women and children for the sake of "being a good person." As a conservative, I don't need Shapiro or any conservative media to validate me. The previous things I've mentioned is validation enough is that the liberals, leftists, and Democrats are the most evil people in the world and I'm on the right side of history. I'm curious to know how are you going to justify it and still make it seem that the left is better than the right.
My problem is that people treat him like an intellectual, he's not. He's kept the same level of knowledge and understanding since he was a child. He's shown no intellectual honesty, no ability to learn new information, nor have the ability to utilize any new information unless it props up his grift of selling wing-nut ideologies.
....never-mind that whole thing where is factually and demonstrably proven wrong at every turn....never-mind that whole thing where he appears on University campuses to "debate" a bunch of kids in an environment he controls, but always seems to duck the actual professors and research scientists and post docs that are in abundance on these campuses in a neutral environment....becuase he knows he will be eviscerated in short order by them.
@@thecollector6746 and they continue to treat him like an intellectual worthy of being debated in places of knowledge... It's the thing that has aggravated more and more it happens.
He’s basically Ayn Rand reincarnated.
He's also treated as an intellectual due to his Harvard education. But the key word is he has no intellectual honesty.
I think he is smart. He's just intentionally dishonest. You know how much rich conservatives love Ben Shapiro? Ben Shapiro plays them like a fiddle (pun intended).
I also don't understand how the guy you 100% would not invite to your birthday party in high school is something that anyone, especially young people could listen to of their own free will.
You're preaching to the choir here. Even back during my cringe Anti-SJW days, I always found Ben Shabibo to be obnoxious.
That's the thing that really blows my mind. No one really likes Ben Shapiro. Centrists and the left hate him obviously but even most right wingers don't really seem to like or interact with him (if they aren't selling something)
Seriously if crowder, Peterson and Shapiro weren’t such uncharismatic drones I’d fear I would still be in a black hole of manufactured dread
@@beebo7071 Honestly I think Peterson has some good advice when it comes to psychology and literature in an academic sense, but I think in no domain of authority does a psychologist seem fit to make social commentary on politics lmao. Unlike Shapiro tho, I can have some respect for Peterson because he's older and looks like he's purely coming from a place of old-fashioned ignorance and conservatism, whilst Shapiro looks like he's being purposely inflammatory for the views and hype
@@Kokola-qh9wp check out Some More News' recent video. They perfectly dissect the crazed persona of Peterson.
@@LiShuBen ya thats why he has millions of subscribers
I want a Social Network kinda movie that deconstructs these right wing grifter types. Ben Shapiro would just be an Oscar winning role.
Could you imagine how mad he'd be that some no-name look-alike would get accolades for performing as him, after he himself faceplanted on his dream of Hollywood stardom on multiple occasions?
Yes Rami Malek as Ben Shapiro, please!
@@JLB0880 I take it all back; this, please.
Steve Buscemi as Jordan Peterson. Dean Norris as Alex Jones. Aaron Paul as Tim Pool. A bag of potting soil as Charlie Kirk.
@@esbenm6544 The image of Steve Buscemi boldly declaring *"up yours, woke moralists"* 😭
It’s funny how he thinks he’s so clever for ‘outsmarting’ college students but gets immediately destroyed the moment he’s confronted by someone who knows their subject matter (eg the Larry King interview). Because he’s so quick with heckling & wisecracks it gives the illusion of intelligence, which solidifies many beliefs of those on the right regardless of how wrong they can be.
not even an expert, he doesn't do that well against just like.. any random adult or anyone who a 18 year old college freshmen.
he's like an evil chandler bing
I used to be a cringey gamergate type, and watched many of these of right-wing personalities that make me sick to my stomach nowadays, but even back then, I couldn’t stand Ben Shapiro.
I would pay good money to be his high school bully.
Shapiro is a man that makes me think that bullies are not doing their job correctly.
that last sentence sent me 😂
Congratulations on your growth as a human. It is worth remembering that adults are better targets for bullying than children; you could start giving money to PSL or SA and we can start bullying the ruling class the way they deserve
That's ok. I very briefly got into some of those people. Never people like Ben who were flat out right wingers. I like logicked, armoured skeptic those types because I liked the arguments against atheism. And I was really freaked out when it turned into bashing feminists. I thought Sargon was so insane that I never fully jumped in. I still like several of them though the ones who were never right wingers. But the point is you learned and that's what matters
Omg same! I was big on GamerGate atheist types back in the “anti SJW heyday.”
But even then I thought Ben was a dweeb who was just an arrogant idiot
Also lol at that last sentence lmao 🤣🤣
Ben Shapiro is an Imperial Stormtrooper who thinks he’s a Rebel Soldier
Or he is Anakin without being the Chosen One. He feels hella mighty killing younglings but also is the kind of person to willingly fling himself up the high ground into an older, more wise master's lightsaber. Not to mention he probably hates Sand People and would force choke his own wife.
The fact that Shapiro is cousins with Mara Wilson make me rethink just how awkward my family reunions are.
Is that the girl who played Matilda and said she hates his guts?
@@pennyforyourthots The very same.
@@pennyforyourthots yep
@@pennyforyourthots yes. And I think he even blocked her on twitter.
@@pennyforyourthots I don't know about the second part, but she is the person who played Matilda, yes.
I always enjoy watching people debunking him or just laughing about him or his books, but there always comes a point were i realize that there are people who actually believe his bullshit and then im like - man, how?
You ever hear the behind the bastards podcast where they read his book? It's super entertaining. (The podcast, not the book)
It's not about being right, it's about being mean to the right people. Bigotry is his appeal
@@guy-sl3kr that's literally the most of it, yup. That and the desire to belong to a "special" in-group.
How? Because most of his views, except for his religion, are based on facts and not emotion, and he has an IQ of 140. That's why people listen to him.
@@michaelernest7224 😹😹😹😹,just stop
Shapiro's face just begs to be slapped. His voice, his smugness, his gish gallops, his continuous stream of informal fallacies, his embarrassing lack of understanding of female anatomy and physiology. Good topic; why would you watch him?
He’s a champion gish-galloper
The German language has a word for this - Backfeffengeschite - A face in need of a fist.
That's what he is, he is a proxy for angry emotionally isolated men. He is the one who is able to say the horrible things they want to say to people they despise and blame for their shortcomings, and ben wholly embraces the role. How much of his own hype and bs does he irl believe is difficult to say, but I do know that he refuses to debate left tubers like Vaush or Xanderhal. Like if he believes wholeheartedly in his own rhetoric, then he should have no problem destroying them in a debate, or at the very least put them in a standstill
You forgot the " " where the left tubers is written
"left tubers like Vaush" lol. lmao.
@@TurbopropPuppy true though regardless of the left-tuber in question, he won’t debate them cause he’s not interested in outside opinions of his sphere, and even if on some level he was; being the “hip intellectual” to edgelords is his bread & butter. Ben will never convince anyone that his ideas have merit outside of some platitudes that start from some kernel of truth I.E. there is a crisis of young men becoming more & more isolated, but he is reassuring to those that already share in his beliefs, and while he’s being reassuring, why not but some of his brain pills?
Emotionally isolated man @unlucky one? Do you have a reason for making that curious assumption? The man runs multiple successful companies and is a member of a Jewish community, so one would have to ask your sources…
@@judodavid1 Not sure I would classify grifting edgelords & being able to sign actors that got bounced out of the Mouse House as successful but to each their own. Amway is also successful using that frame of references.
As a dumb teen, trying to look edgy, I used to be a fan of Ben and the conservative narrative. Then I grew up. Some ppl just never grow up to develop their own intellect to question and not blindly follow/agree. And I think even Ben knows he is full of shit himself and doesn't belive everything that comes out of his own mouth. But that's what his audience wants to hear and that's what's making him money so he does it. This is true for most conservative influencer. It's impossible of any rational being to comprehend that one side is always f*ing right and the other wrong.
I will just make the obvious reference:
SELL THE HOUSES TO WHO, BEN?
FUCKING AQUAMAN?
Ben Shapiro: the man who watched "It's a Wonderful Life" and sided with Mr. Potter. Enough said.
The fact you put the edit of that BBC interview in front of wall paper full of Sasuke Uchiha pictures makes this even more hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Everyone makes fun of him for the wooden plank video but it was actually a deep artistic statement, the wooden board represents his personality.
There's actually a very simple reason, if you'll excuse my extreme bluntness. His target audience is a bunch of cowardly losers. They don't want people who actually possess positive traits which they would find threatening like intellectual integrity, genuine confidence, healthy secure masculinity, etc as those people would challenge them and make them feel inferior.
That's why from Ben, to Trump, to Bush, to Jordan Peterson, to all those neckbeards in Gamergate, to Musk, etc they so frequently cluster around people with such obvious personal failings who failed upward just because they were born with privilege and stubbornly stuck to their bigotries.
They want people who they can put on pedestals and kiss up to but which won't challenge them to be better.
They want reinforced their feeling that they're already better than 90% of the people out there and don't even have to work at it but are just being kept down from their rightful place by [insert meaningless collective label for everything left of conservative].
That's why their thought leaders are just as much failsons as them if you ignore the difference in money and status and all their intellectuals are what a stupid person's idea of a smart person is and their icons of masculinity are what a weak person's idea of a strong person is and a coward's idea of what a brave person is and an incel's idea of what an "alpha" is etc and all in ways that feel comfortable and familiar and something they can identify with.
They're just looking to have their feelings that they're already the best pandered to.
As always, it all comes back to their entire self-image being based on where they can imagine themselves in their invented heirarchies by kissing up to people who feel so familiar to them (raising their self-perceived status by increasing how close they can imagine themselves to the top of that heirarchy) and kicking down to others different from them (increasing their distance from the bottom of said hierarchy).
It is a loser ideology for lazy, entitled losers desperately trying to escape their own feelings of weakness, which is why the appeal always comes back to the exact same thing with them whether we're talking about their preferences in thought leaders or anything else.
I tried for a long time to understand the complex inner world of the far-right mind and eventually had to accept that I was just overcomplicating it. The appeal for any part of it is _always_ and without exception "because it temporarily alleviates their inner feelings of weakness which so terrify them" and the threadbare layer of "complexity" built right on top of that is tying their self image entirely to where they can imagine themselves in a heirarchy.
Everything else is rationalizations and excuses for what they are emotionally driven to do.
The motivation is _always_ the same (and what it is explains why they cling to their politics with such irrational desperation)
Innuendo Studios' video on "Always a Bigger Fish" hits the nail on the head. It's ALL about heirarchy and putting themselves near the top of it. Philosophy Tube's video on "why the left will win" is also very topical.
I understand why you're framing them this way, but I grew up in the South and have a slightly different perspective. Americans relentlessly ridicule southerners as a bunch of inbred morons, and poverty rates in the south are higher than anywhere else in the US. They are going to churches where the pastor is preaching what capitalists want people to hear, and they don't know that they shouldn't be trusting one of the people they've been raised to trust more than anyone.
If you ridicule anyone, you can rest assured that you aren't going to win them over to your side. As long as people who are currently on the right feel like they are being talked down to, they are just going to get even more entrenched in their beliefs while their (and our) quality of life continues to deteriorate.
Bro I like Ben cuz he has nice memes wtf r u talkin about.
@@justinwatson1510 ignoring the truth even privately because it would offend them to say it to their face is irrational, and you need to understand their real motivations if you're going to actually make an emotionally compelling argument why they should care what is true in the first place.
Until you can manage that, any logic you can put forward will go in one ear and out the other. We need to be able to convince them that their feelings should care about the facts, and that's doubly true if you don't already have a strong personal connection to them.
Sure, how you apply that knowledge gets more complicated and situational (yes, going around and calling every conservative a coward to their face at every opportunity isn't the best rhetorical strategy), but recognizing that fear of weakness is what is driving them is critical to getting past their emotional resistance to thinking in the first place so they they will have a chance of actively listening to your more substantial points.
One of the key uses of this knowledge would be to convince them that continuing to follow their far-right thought leaders will make them weak.
You cannot break through a cult mindset with reason alone when one of their tenants is contempt for truth and reason (which they associate with emasculation and weakness). You have to make the emotional case that they should care FIRST and you can't make effective emotional appeals to someone if you don't understand what motivates them.
You’re right and you should say it!
Also when a man literally has nothing to show for himself in his life except his ego, he will cling onto whatever feeds it like the last crumb of sustenance on earth & the right provides men like this with a buffet.
"his target audience is a bunch of cowardly losers" " they don't want anyone to possess any positive traits" you have anything to back it up? Watching their videos doesn't count. IDK what "evidence" you're talking about but I'd like to see actual investigative journalism including recordings of Peterson, Trump, Shapiro, and anyone of the far-right who promotes 'hate.'
"Loser ideology" what? So just because u don't agree and can't understand where they're coming from is something you have to be irrational about? The right is all about self-sufficiency and it's weird you're threatened by that. Do you still want the govt to hold your hand?
You say that they don't want anyone to possess any positive traits but that's coming from YOU. You're being hateful against something you don't understand. As a conservative, I don't hate the liberals as people and I'm sure Shapiro and Peterson don't either. BUT you liberals and Democrats do. It's evident in your emotional, irrational "truth." 💀
Benny is what stupid people think "smart" is... it's the same with Peterson and other pseudo-acadmics.
Peterson had some good things to say during his peak in 2017-2018ish. It helped me cope my way through a crisis of identity and belonging. But now he fell off the deep end since the pandemic and it's just sad to see him become so bitter.
I used to genuinely think I wasn't smart enough to get an advanced degree... Jordan Peterson is the reason I no longer believe this. If he can, anyone can.
@@youtubesucks3882 you always had the answers inside you, and I bet any number of interlocutors could have revealed that to you eventually. Peterson has always been a douche, don't give him credit for you helping yourself. He wouldn't do the same for you.
Jordan Peterson is nothing like people like Ben Shapiro. The latter seems more intentionally manipulative. Jordan Peterson just seems like a tragedy.
@@vitulus_ but he's a college professor, not just a random comic turned pundit. You'd think he'd be more self aware, not less.
Ben Shapipo's greatest achievement is marrying a doctor
Love the shoutout of the liberal cook! Watched this channel since they were super tiny & Im so happy they finally blow up, they definitely deserve it!
He resonates with disaffected young obsessive gamers, because he looks and sounds like them - but with better grooming.
A Neo-Nazi incel on a what’s app group that I used to be on, would use Ben Shapiro as a deflection for his anti-Semitism .
As someone whose third language is English, I am strongly of the belief that people who listen to Ben Shapiro are just listening to him as a challenge and are trying to see whether they can keep up with his rather fast way of talking and convoluted way of speaking.
Native English speaker here, i agree. He's very good at saying things that *sound* smart but have very little substance
Yeah, his stilted manner makes the morons who listen to him feel smart.
A stupid person's idea of a smart person. Ben typifies this better than anyone else it's been said of.
Much like Jordan Peterson... who is also seen as an intellectual instead of a liar (yes, liar, he lies about his credentials and his academic achievements), and not just a master chef in the landscape of word salads.
Both men are just annoying, but even more annoying is the debilitating shock they cause in the people they choose to debate, because the absurdity is so massive that refuting their arguments is an utter exercise in futility. It's so easy to deconstruct their arguments, but I can't tell if it's out of (unwarranted) respect or bafflement, it seems their opponents never manage to point out how stupid they sound.
I'm not a native English speaker either, but maybe because my language is already as convoluted as your average daytime TV drama, their speech just sounds like a whole lot of nothing. And their "evidence" and "studies" need to be presented with sources, otherwise they must be ignored and regarded as completely irrelevant. I mean, if that's all it takes I can mention fashion magazine articles or Reddit posts as "studies" too, if I don't need to mention the sources.
Most of the time it's incredibly easy to summarize their five minute rants into a sentence with as few as ten words. And doing that makes it so much easier to expose their absurdity, their prejudice and their utter lack of reasonable arguments.
@@Palmieres Could you please elaborate on JP's lies regarding his credentials?
@@Juniperus_Godegara his academic credentials are in clinical psychology, yet he has more than once claimed he's an expert on neuroscience and evolutionary biology - which he isn't. Just because you read a book once doesn't make you an expert on the subject the book was covering. It's also pretty funny how someone who admits to be unqualified to analyse mathematical models also claims that climate models are too complicated to be accurate. I mean, that's pretty much like me saying brain surgery is too complicated to perform accurately since I don't know how to do it. He should just be more humble about himself, and stick to facts. But he isn't and the "facts" he chooses to talk about are biased, often unsupported by evidence or refuted by other better supported studies, yet wrapped up so elaborately by his confidence that people just believe him. No one bothers to fact check him, and that's both very fascinating (from a negative perspective concerning human behaviour) and extremely dangerous. We should always remember he's a psychologist, he has studied the tools to manipulate people. And he's doing just that.
Ben Shapiro is the older form of the annoying little brother character from a Nickelodeon show.
This video is begging to be the first of a whole series. Now do one on Dennis Prager, Matt Walsh, and Dave Rubin. WINDOWS HAS FINISHED SEARCHING AND NO APPEAL WAS FOUND
I want to thank you for your last video. For whatever reason, probably subconsciously, I never took any time to develop any skin care routine. I admit that 15 years ago I would have thought moisturizer and exfoliant was “metrosexual,” a term I stopped using 12 years ago. I mentioned your video and told my wife I probably should stop washing my face with dandruff shampoo. She promptly bought me face soap, exfoliant, morning/evening moisturizer, and it’s been great. Thanks for helping me tear down a wall in my brain prison.
Thank heck you have a new video out. I was about to start crying, but now I can focus on you until I fall asleep.
You are valued.
He gives a pseudo intellectual veneer to screaming racist, misogynistc abuse in CoD lobbies, basically
When Ben says “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” he doesn’t mean “you” in a general sense; he means YOU specifically. “Facts don’t care about YOUR feelings,” with the unstated assertion: “Facts DO care about Ben Shapiro’s feelings.”
A question his wife must ask regularly...
I'd like to personally thank the person who makes you say "my wife" in a Borat voice at the end of these videos.
That actually is my wife.
I think part of the reason why Shapiro has all this success (and perceived intelligence) is because he talks so damn fast
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Its cause he speaks fast which to most people means intelligent. He looks smug when saying his horseshit but because its so fast it seems like he won the interaction. Basically he gets his following by pure tone and body language. If he was this lethargic gloomy sounding sounding person, he'd be more popular with older demographics despite what he talks about. Tell you what, open a youtube video aimed at kids and look how that person is talking. Now notice Ben is the inbetween of like talking to normal people and an average person. Hence more zoomers because he keeps the energy and has this like memeable vibe to him he can maintain his audience. Also lets be clear, right wingers tend to have golden training wheels in media organisations you can be dogshit and still succeed with sheer billionaire funding.
I think the talk fast approach also “works” in that he can get through 5 points of horseshit, that anyone doing a debunking would need to slowdown & go through whatever nuance to debunk, but he’s already moved onto point 6 and the audience has probably already forgotten about the original point being debunked. Thank you recency effect.
Exciting! :)
Ben is the Speedy Gonzales version of Jordan Peterson: small and fast-talking.
Hey buddy, love your videos. I'm a huge fan of the big video essayists and also people like vaush and keffals and all that, and I just wanna say I appreciate what you do here. You're a good person, that much comes through your work.
Several of Ben’s early videos on his channel used specific facts that came from cited studies to back up his arguments, unfortunately, 99% of the time these facts were either cheery-picked, taken out of context, or taken from a study that *didn’t* support the conclusions he was trying to claim the study made. After getting taken to task and debunked several times, he just stopped citing facts to backup his arguments.
The dude is talking fast and bold. He looks super smart and convincing for naïve, ignorant and simple minded people.
Something I always thought about. People say(or imply) that because we found out the gov did something wrong in the past, we are good now. Completely ignoring how we just find out that it happened, nothing done to fix it.
He's a conservative nerd. Most nerds are smart, which usually means they're on the left. Conservatives are like "hey guys we have our own nerd now! THIS GUY will let us copy his homework!"
I saw that bbc interview at the time it came out. It's still such a treat.
Liberals in America have spent decades talking about conservatives like they're developmentally disabled, and I think that is why people like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapeño appeal to their audience. As much as they claim to hate professors in their ivory towers, conservatives want an authority figure with the trappings of intelligence who tells them that they are right and don't need to change.
Because they pretty much are? The evidence does support this idea
@@mrnemo204 seems ableist, theyre bad faith actors that usually know what theyre doing
@@mrnemo204 exactly.
The hate in his eyes is unsettling.
ok so the Boost Bus is cute as hell
also great choice of "passengers"
they think by yelling and ignoring what people say in response makes you a good debator
Only bad thing thing about this video is having to listen to Ben Shapiro's annoying nasal voice.
Informative video
Clowncore over the opening credits? A+ video, no further fact checking or credentials required.
ofc it's bc of his sex appeal, definitely
Lotta wet ass p-word in those Bench Appearo comment sections.
His wife would disagree ;P
I'm incredibly surprised at the typos in Ben's tweet at 22:25. How did he manage to write any papers to get through university if he doesn't know how to spell "it's", "says" or "disappointed"?
Oh my sweet summer child, go check out some of his published fiction, you have no idea
"the idea that conservatism is inherently unfunny is untrue"
Sure about that, Ben? I have multiple studies that show otherwise.
You are so painfully unfunny that you transcend the idea that humor is subjective to become empirically unfunny.
That's quite the achievement.
I don't want to be harsh and biased...but my grandpa used to say that humour is a big sign of intelligence. Ops 😂
@@mermaidmoon2254 it is certainly reliant on at least some forms of intelligence, so the lack of a sense of humor is certainly evidence of a cognitive deficiency... especially when one of the studies included not just the ability to make funny jokes, but to understand jokes (and conservatives had significant difficulty in telling when they were the butt of the joke)
It's also far from the only way conservatives' mental faculties have been shown to be lacking....
@@dynamicworlds1 Lol a "smart" person wouldn't call a whole group of people they don't know as dumb losers with loser ideology. It's funny that you have a big ego just by bringing down people.
Someone should tell B.S that facts don't care about his feelings
"How can anyone find Ben Shapiro appealing?" I've often asked myself the same question.
Jordan Peterson I get. I mean, he sucks, but I get it. Ben Shapiro? What the hell?
The winey voice is off putting
@@Cargo_Bay Insanely off putting. Imagine him getting laid and calling his wife "Mommy" as he completes his mission. Eek.
@@santosd6065 I did not need that in my head 😂
@@Scar-jg4bn It's in my head, so now it has to be in yours. Sorry. Just be glad I skipped the part about the jelly lube.
@@santosd6065 gotta have the jelly to get WAP.
thats a really nice jacket but also you say things that are well informed
thanks
so in short ben shapiro is basically a generic isekai protag for conservatives.
Lmaooo
You have always had a talent for choosing the best video essay topics
"My wifes bed"
God even his wife can't stand to sleep with him.
It's also a feature of Orthodox Jewish households.
@@Eibarwoman I did not know that
My favorite part was the Ben Shapiro Debunked Advertisement beforehand
liked before having seen it
alright I already liked your channel but clown core as the intro music really pushed me over the edge: subbed
He's got Resting Glower Face, which is kind of remarkable.
starting with clowncore, this bodes well :D
I’ve been searching the comments to see who else knows 😜
10:35 Funnily enough, the example shown here is an outliar: that woman actually managed to back him into a corner and make him admit that he doesn't agree with cold hard science, of course, he remained stoic but I mean we all heard it...
As much as I do not respect Ben Shapiro, I do have to point out that referring to any jewish person as a goblin isn't a good move and plays into an antisemetic trope. I assume this is likely to be an accident but a heads up is needed
Ben Shapiro is as racist as they come. Don't cry a river for him.
I find it a bit funny that Ben acts like men and women are two diferent species, while looking identical with his sister.
"My feelings don't care about facts" Ben Shapiro's alter ego
I couldn't even watch 1 minute of Ben. Ben sounds like the stereotypical nerd from the 1970's.
Another great video. Thanks!
The thing that bothers me the most about the way he's presenting himself, is his voice and fast "I totally owned you, bro!" manner of speaking. It's giving middleschool kid trying to win an arguent about who's the coolest character to play in Smash.
He talk fast, sound smart.
That's the appeal.
And I like a surrogate for taking down a bully, so thank you (and all of the other people who make videos calling out public bullies) for doing so. I'm glad it's not the primary focus for most channels who do so, but it's nice to see it from time to time both as catharsis and a reminder that while these people aren't in my immediate circle any more they are still around spreading awful beliefs.
I wish we had time travel... I would send Benny to "good old days" of 1939 "right wing paradise"... I'm sure as a jew would fucking love it. I really wonder how his world view changed after that.
Fuck now you’re playing clown core music. You’re music taste is impeccable. And your videos are immaculate. Thank you for making such great content.
Great vid.
Great video! This man’s voice fills me with fury.
He misgenders other trans women but shows respect to Blaire White only because she passes for a cis woman and is conservative...
Just leaving a comment! Solid video.
Ben Shapiro does make my skin crawl he can often have a tantrum when things do not go his way at a venue he does not exercise control over.
Hi here for the algorithm
Has anyone even seen his wife in the past decade?
I feel he made her quit being a doctor because either there's no way he would allow her to see any genitalia, or he needs to brag about having a stay-at-home wife taking care of their brood.
Is she just making consulting calls from the basement?
These men like Matt Walsh never get divorced, they did too good of a grooming and manipulation job.
My running theory so far is that Ben Shapiro and other conservative podcasters like him emulate the behavior of arrogant, confident Marvel heroes. I know it sounds crazy, but I feel like there's a lot of similarities between how he carries himself and how iron man does in his trilogy. My opinion is also influenced by the fact that my mom binges these podcasts and tells me "there's my boyfriend Benny Boo," which is similar to when we're watching a Marvel movie, and Iron man, Captain America, or Thor come on screen, and she says "that's my boyfriend!" In a joking way of course, but she shows the same admiration for these men as she does for Ben. Anyways, just a thought.
I love Ben Shapiro because, out of all of the big-shot rightwing communicators, he is the most obviously dumb, wrong, and entirely blunt to the fact. I have endless hours of fun listening to random people, youtubers and content creators dunking on him freely.
What the fuck was that laugh towards the end.
The comments from Ben's fans are so pathetic.
I would have liked to see some points he made and you debunking them. I don't blame you though. Who would want to sit through a Ben Shapiro speech and edit them for a video? My head would explode.
That magic Wand tweet is fake though right? I HAS to be fake XD
First time here. Recognized that snare drum from the first hit. Two thumbs up.
If my set of beliefs was spearheaded by such a man, I would assume I had it wrong
Hey can you make a video on alpha male like Andrew Tate and freshandfit
Ben Shapiro reminds me of a really mean chihuahua.
Salari Wins (said in Mortal Kombat voice)
I watch one of his podcast, just out of curiosity and see why ppl is so attracted to him and Damm I got the answer, he's not just using the political instability to make content in a daily basic, he apeall to the MOST vocal, insecure, and bias majority, young, white extremely ensecure and lacking of any aware of their material conditions, political responsibility, capabilities and extremely detach from reality, you should be quite........ naive to belive anything he said, I find him lacking in character, charisma or personality, some one who doesn't belive in his own ideas and values, which is sad if you think about, some one unable to see his own flaws, pointing them and acknowledge such flaws to improve, change or alright accept them and be aware of them, shielding on excuses to avoid think and any kind of responsibility beyond our daily basic (is a lot more complex than what I'm saying but meh, think for yourself, I'm too lazy to keep wring shit)
Just out of curiosity, is english your first languaje?
@@resurrectthenight nop, my conjugation is weird, I speak Spanish as my first language, I still leaning English
@@omenmarin7903 aaaamigo es que me pareció curioso porque se parece mucho a como escribo yo a veces en inglés.
Funerals for puppies ARE funny when it's a melodramatic procession of kids who barely know what they're doing, just watch the 3 lives of Thomasina, or Malcolm in the Middle.
I think you're wrong about Ben's charisma. He *is* charismatic in that he is authoritative. He speaks quickly and confidently in a way that makes him look sure of himself and correct outside of scrutiny. He's also good at pulling snappy comebacks out of his ass that make him look clever when he's actually just using thought terminating cliches to silence good arguments.
idk.... playing to the gallery in and of itself is either a win, or it isnt. if it isnt when ben does it, it isnt when someone else does it either. i truly hope we get away from the disingenuous performative cruelty as a model. its helping nobody.
Excellent - I love to see the flawed "logic" of these people exposed. And, of course, you had me at "as stuff as a 14 year old boy's socks found under the bed...